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Avary was sentenced in September to a year in jail and five years probation for causing a drunken driving car crash that killed a passenger and injured Avary's wife.

The United States was "hell bent" on a 2003 military invasion of Iraq and actively undermined efforts by Britain to win international authorization for the war, a former British diplomat told an inquiry Friday.

The Virginia couple who crashed a presidential dinner met President Barack Obama in the receiving line, the White House said Friday, as a "deeply concerned and embarrassed" Secret Service acknowledged its officers failed to check whether the couple was on the guest list.

Tim Montgomery started taking performance-enhancing drugs because he wanted to beat American sprint rival Maurice Greene and become the fastest man in the world, the former 100-metre world-record holder said in an interview with a British newspaper.

Heinrich Boere, 88, made his first comments to the Aachen state court since his trial opened at the end of October.

November 27, 2009 -- Police are looking for an escaped prisoner, who was behind bars for murder.

The Harper government introduced legislation Thursday to make it tougher for Canadians imprisoned abroad to serve their sentences in Canada.

Cuba's armed forces launched three days of intense military exercises across the island Thursday, a mobilization that state-controlled media says is designed to guard against an American invasion.

Computer hacker Gary McKinnon could be sent to the US within weeks after the Home Secretary refused to block his extradition.

Thanksgiving Day for soldiers in this valley ringed by towering snowy peaks began with a 6-mile slog to aid village schools without desks and windows, and promises to end with five, once scrawny local turkeys soldiers have been fattening up for the past month.

Anti-war protesters from the 'Stop the War' group, wearing masks depicting British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, right, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, center and former US president George W. Bush, left, pose for the photographers, outside the conference center where the Iraq war inquiry is taking place, in central London, Tuesday Nov.

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It's a crime so profitable that even dead people are in on the act. A Senate committee revealed last year that public health insurer Medicare had paid as much as $92 million from 2000 to 2007 for medical services or equipment ordered or prescribed by doctors who were dead at the time.

A young woman from Mexico was smuggled over the border and forced to work as a prostitute for years in New York City, and the remains of an infant were found in concrete at the home where she was held prisoner, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.

Israel's prime minister on Wednesday proposed a 10-month freeze on new West Bank settlement construction in what he said was an attempt to jump-start Mideast peace talks.

Dr. Carmelita Bautista said in a deposition filed in U.S. District Court that she had never before been involved in an execution.

ISLAMABAD: Pakistani prosecutors charged seven men on Wednesday with planning and helping execute last year's Mumbai terror attacks.

Khalid Sheik Mohammed has acknowledged doing what his nephew Ramzi Yousef couldn't: toppling the World Trade Center towers.

Prosecutors in the genocide trial of a former Khmer Rouge prison chief demanded a 40-year jail sentence Wednesday for a man who they described as snuffing out innocent lives and spreading terror across Cambodia.

The U.S. State Department announced Tuesday that it is now offering a reward of up to $5 million for a Palestinian bomb-maker suspected of once targeting commercial airliners and of aiding the Iraq insurgency.